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The Bill also protects the rights of ACT citizens by providing procedures to be followed for the issue and execution of search warrants by inspectors. In addition, traders are given a right of access to records seized by inspectors in the course of their activities. I commend the Bill to the Assembly and present the explanatory memorandum for the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Jensen) adjourned.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (11.10): I present the Weights and Measures (Amendment) Bill 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
The Weights and Measures (Amendment) Bill is related to the Trade Measurement Bill and the Trade Measurement (Administration) Bill presented to the Assembly today. Together they make up a package of modern trade measurement legislation which will see the Territory into the twenty-first century.
The purpose of this Bill is to preserve the provisions in the Weights and Measures Act which regulate the sale of bread in the Territory. This is necessary because the Trade Measurement Bill expressly excludes the sale of bread. Bread has not been included in the uniform scheme because the working party on uniform trade measurement has not yet agreed upon an appropriate measuring methodology for bread. Until uniform provisions are available, each State and Territory which enacts the uniform trade measurement legislation must make separate provision for regulating the sale of bread.
The Bill deals mainly with the repeal of the sections of the Weights and Measures Act which cover trade measurement generally. It also provides that the amended Act will be administered in the same way as the uniform trade measurement legislation. Part VIA of the Act, relating specifically to the sale of bread, has been retained with minimum amendment.
The only significant amendment relates to the removal of the provision requiring scales to be provided in a conspicuous place in all shops selling bread. The amendment of this provision is necessary because the Weights and Measures Act dates from an age when the packaging and marketing of bread was substantially different from what it is today. In 1929 bakers baked bread and sold it from their bakeries. Some bakers even
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